Existential quantification

As humans, several things make us irritated. While some things that make certain people annoyed do not have the same effect on others, the basic concepts are the same. One thing that I have noticed all people get enraged about is being around someone who they do not particularly admire. Perhaps the worst of all, is being in the same setting as a stereotypical know it all. Most of the time people do not know how to identify know it alls which leaves them no way to resolve the annoyance the know…

Winniscot’s book, Playing and Reality, focuses on the nature of learning through playing and how mentally vulnerable people are when they’re young. In his case studies, he mentioned about a boy who would act in weird manners with strings when his mother wasn’t home. The problem became worse and worse, and they visited him for help. Winnicot suggested that a line of communication would be required between the mother and the child as he could see that the child was too reliant on the mother. After…

Vesa came to the table with boxes and glass pebbles on it. She separated a handful of the pebbles, correctly counted twelve of them and placed them in a basket. An adult asked her to choose four boxes and how she divide the pebbles equally. Vesa chose boxes and placed one pebble at the time in each box until she run out of the pebbles, and then counted how many she had in each box: “There is three in each box.” The adult give her more pebbles and asked her to equally divide them between five…

“A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” - Marcus Garvey) Communities thrive off of traditions and ideas that create a sense of unity in an environment. In order to feel a sense of belonging, you must first understand where you are, who you are, and how you go to be there. All over the world you will see a never-ending amount of rituals, and social norms. Learning how to participate in a community starts with interpreting language.…

It was a peaceful day in a shabby condo. Kade and I were sitting in his room. An hour of AP Social Studies homework and 7th grade English homework in when a gust of wind came through the closed window. How do I put this, there was a noise. A very fuzzy, subtle noise. A ZING, SWOOSH, SHUUAH noise. All of a sudden, out popped two people. The women said to us in a serene voice, “We are your parents. We want to take you home.” My brother and I were abandoned when he was 6 months old. One morning my…

A Cacophony of Puppets by Sarah-Noémie Laurin "A dark planet of awesome size perched in its sunless void, an invisible titan all thick black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans. A monster. Spinning. Soundless. Forgotten. It’s so close now." It was once us. It will be us. I don 't think that will ever leave humankind 's subconscious. Chapter One - Destroying ‘Euphemism’ in Life ~Nicolas~ It is chaos. This word is too small to explain the situation. This is a genocide.…

I find it funny when guys say that they don’t like girls that talk too much; isn 't it like saying I 'd rather a physically attractive chick with low intelligence, that cannot hold a conversation? i-blame-movies-for-my-high-expectations-of-relationships Talking about holding a conversation, sometimes that can get hard for me to do (it depends on the subject of course!) . For some reason everything reminds me of something and some something’s sometimes remind me of everything… at times a word,…

Day one of my captivity I have been captured by the enemy. They came in the evening with their large trucks and their strange, thin radios, which they kept tapping with their fingertips. I wondered at first if they were typing in Morse Code, but it wasn’t. It wasn’t any code I recognized. They asked me if I knew what was going on. Of course I knew. The enemy had come for me and was taking me to a POW camp. It was only a matter of time before they discovered the work I had been doing in my…

His destructive habits however, are something we see only after this. Noa is an incredibly vindictive child, acting on impulse toward those who have wronged him in his eyes. Soon after his breakdown he very quickly comes up with a plan to not only again escape the computer world but also destroy the computer itself...and therefore, the three who he detests so much at this time. His father, who betrayed him after all he had done for the man, and had even gone so far as to blatantly tell Noa that…

The concept of infinity is the closest thing that resembles how complicated life is. Take away one from infinity and you still have infinity; take away a complication from life and life is still complicated. One of those many complicated factors in life is responsibility, which is just another part of life that does not have a simple explanation. The complex nature of responsibility makes it difficult for me to give an absolute answer on what I perceive to be my responsibility, for all I can do…